The UN Committee against Torture expressed ‘particular concern’ that the number of deaths in custody to date ‘appears to be abnormally high and appears to have exclusively affected the Palestinian detainee population’
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Electrocution, waterboarding, hallucinogens: UN report expresses 'grave concern' over Israeli torture of Palestinians
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British doctor praising Oct. 7, incited against Jews, suspend
Dr. Rahmeh Aladwan, 31, a doctor in Britain’s National Health Service, has been suspended as investigators examine a series of antisemitic remarks and expressions of support for terror that she posted online.
Aladwan, a surgical and orthopedic…
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‘Single Arab women rarely talk about sex, it is a taboo’
Sabrine Hujeirat, 38, a Ph.D. candidate in public policy, is unmarried. Originally from the Bedouin town of Bir al-Maksur, she lives in Jaffa.
Your study on sexuality among unmarried women in Arab society was recently published at Bar-Ilan…
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Lone Star of David: How a short-lived plan saw persecuted European Jews reroot in Texas
When author Rachel Cockerell started a nonfiction book project about her late Jewish grandmother in the UK, the last thing she suspected her research would turn up was a long-forgotten great-grandfather’s involvement in an obscure early…
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Anti-government activist arrested after calling for forcible removal of ‘traitor’ Netanyahu
Police on Friday arrested anti-government activist Yolanda Yavor, a Tel Aviv University lecturer from Or Akiva, for social media posts allegedly inciting violence against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and others.
“The only choice is…
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Trump claims he’s ‘canceling’ Biden autopen-signed orders, pushing legal and politica
In a Truth Social post on Friday, Trump asserted that documents bearing an autopen signature were invalid unless Biden personally signed them, claiming without evidence that aides used the device to bypass a mentally declining president. He said…
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Israel readies responses; Sunni terror group behind Beit Jinn clash
Security officials said there is no indication so far that al-Sharaa’s people were directly involved, but stressed the incident underscores Israel’s view that it must not allow hostile forces to entrench themselves near the border or withdraw…
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Police raid left-wing event in Haifa, tell activists to remove call for Gaza pullout
Organizer says cops threatened to shut down private event in case of ‘provocation’ on stage; police say they came only to ‘maintain public order’
The post Police raid left-wing event in Haifa, tell activists to remove call for Gaza pullout…
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20-year-old shot dead in violent incident in Arraba, northern Israel
MDA paramedics who arrived at the scene confirmed his death.
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Airbus warns A320 software flaw could disrupt flights worldwide, including Israeli ca
Airbus said Friday evening that about 6,000 A320 aircraft operating worldwide need an urgent software fix after an investigation into a safety incident found that “intense sunlight radiation” could damage data critical to the plane’s…
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